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With a master number as his active number, Ezequiel has all the chances on his side, and owes it to himself to live in harmony with the vibration of the number 22. He would thus be able to combine self-mastery and intense creativity with an exceptional strength. Ezequiel already gives the impression that this is the case, he seems to literally exude energy, will-power and self-control. However, his nerves can be known to get the better of him, especially with his close friends and family for whom he saves his uglier side, despotic and irascible, whereas he usually tries to influence others and give the impression that he is somebody of influence... If he manages to make the most of the energies of the 22, Ezequiel could reveal himself to have a talent for construction and a desire to build on a large scale, which could be from an artistic, material or political perspective. Obviously such influences are not easy to live with and provoke a situation of high internal tension, necessitating effort, discipline, tenacity, perseverance and self-confidence. Therefore, it is common, (especially if there is a lack of familial and sociocultural support), that he makes do with the influence of 4, an octave that is inferior to 22, and therefore easier to live with. In this case he is likely to show a great need for security and stability. Anxious and full of doubt, he will advance slowly in life, but very surely. He would be characterized by discipline and a sense of duty, as well as sound organizational abilities thanks to his practical and methodical mind. As a child, he is a bright and talkative child who already possesses a certain presence.
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As the first English-style landscape garden in mainland Europe, the 18th century Garden Kingdom of Dessau Wörlitz unites garden design and architecture in perfect harmony. Here you'll find manor houses, more than 100 buildings of varying sizes and a range of sweeping parks and gardens, all spread over an area of 140 square kilometres on and around the banks of the rivers Elbe and Mulde.
The garden is predominantly the work of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt Dessau (1740-1817). As an adherent of the Enlightenment, the Duke used the art of landscape gardening to give expression to political views. Many of the structures and statues were also designed for the moral improvement of the observer. Between 1769 and 1773, mainland Europe's first ever classical building, Wörlitz House, was built in the centre of Wörlitz Park. In a period of over 40 years, other grand houses and parks were built in and around Dessau. These include Georgium Palace – in which the unmissable Anhalt Art Gallery can be found – Luisium Palace, Wörlitz Park and the wooded park on Sieglitzer Berg hill. Kühnau Park represented the culmination of this phase in 1805. Over time, the older structures of Oranienbaum Palace and Mosigkau Palace were integrated into the overall scheme, so that this landscape in today's Saxony-Anhalt resembles an open-air architecture museum covering the period from antiquity to the modern era. Numerous tree-lined avenues, dyke paths and sightlines link the individual gardens and parks. A weekend stay in one of the many holiday homes here should give ample time to appreciate the perfection of this landscape. You can explore the Garden Kingdom at your leisure on foot or by bike and then maybe take in one of the many concerts held as part of the Garden Kingdom Summer from May to September.
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Editorial: The problem with 'Che' Guevara as a role model
It is hard to imagine a day when the visage of Osama bin Laden will grace the T-shirts and dorm rooms of American college students who misguidedly believe that the founder of al-Qaida was a brave revolutionary who loved the poor and only sought to bring social justice to the world.
And yet, it wouldn't be without precedent.
For the last couple of decades, a man every bit as bloodthirsty and evil as bin Laden has symbolized for many young people around the world the romantic spirit of political rebellion.
That man would be Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentinian Marxist, who joined the Castro brothers to bring the revolution to Cuba.
It was exactly 45 years ago today (Oct. 9, 1967) that Guevara met his fate in the mountains of Bolivia where he'd gone to spread the human disaster of totalitarian Marxism.
With his long hair, mangy beard, handsome face and famous beret, Che managed to become an iconic symbol of revolution for the disaffected children of affluent and middle class parents around the world.
Many books have been written and movies made romanticizing Che's humanity and politics. He managed to snow many a journalist and some of the most celebrated writers of his time.
French existentialist Jean Paul Sartre called him "the most complete human being of our age."
Whatever Sartre meant by that, for Guevara part of being a complete human being meant killing his perceived enemies with an uncommon bloodthirstiness.
It was Che's taste for executing non-revolutionaries that caused Fidel Castro to put him in charge of his death camps.
"As commander of the La Cabana execution yard," writes Humberto Fontova, " Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che's second-story office in La Cabana had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing squads at work."
He certainly wasn't a stickler for due process.
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary," he once said. "These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!"
Che's fans idolized him as a poet but he was no Robert Frost. As this early example makes clear:
"Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!"
He wasn't kidding. In fact, he often poke of martyrdom, which would make him a perfect recruit - or leader - for today's Islamic terrorist movement. They have much in common.
Guevara hated democracy, capitalism, homosexuals, free elections and free speech. So did bin Laden.
Though an accomplished killer of unarmed victims, he was a terrible military commander and soldier.
"You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many," says Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking him down in Bolivia. "But when it comes to Che as 'guerrilla' you simply can't help but guffaw."
Writes Fontova: "So for many, the questions remains: How did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?"
Fontova credits the wiley Castro who, after Guevara's death, sang his praises to a number of well-placed useful idiots in the media. The white-washing and legend grew from there.
Today's young socialists would be just as cool wearing T-shirts celebrating the lives and legacies of Pol Pot, Stalin, Osama, Saddam, or Charles Manson.
Upon his capture in Bolivia, Guevara is reported to have thrown down his weapon and surrendered saying, "Don't shoot. I'm Che. I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"
His captors disagreed. He was executed the next day.
His loss was the world's gain.
Editorial courtesy of The Delaware County Times, www.DelcoTimes.com


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I attended a sake tasting and dinner organized by JETAANY on Monday night at Bao Noodles. Chris Johnson, JET-alum, sommelier, and owner of Bao Noodles, presented a tasting of his restaurant's Vietnamese specialties paired with Momokawa and Murai Family sake. Chris is extremely knowledgeable about sake; he explained the different kinds of sake and how sake was made.
It was the first time I had sake with Vietnamese food, or sake with non-Japanese food for that matter. It turned out to be a very educational experience. It may sound strange, but it just works. Sake is indeed a very versatile beverage. My favorite pairing was the dessert: coconut and pandan panna cotta with nigori (unfiltered) sake. The combination of the coconut, pandan and sake became an explosion of tropical aromas in my mouth. Yum!
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These incursions of boreal species into the northern and middle United States are known as irruptions. Irruptions are highly irregular mass movements of northern species thought to be precipitated by a shortage of food in the birds' normal range. Some species thought of as "irrupters" include Bohemian waxwing, pine and evening grosbeaks, red and white-winged crossbills, common redpolls and pine siskins.
Of course, what's an irrupter depends on where you are, too. I wouldn't consider pine siskins irrupters here in Western North Carolina above 3,500 feet or so. I have them at my feeders every winter. However, pine siskins in the upstate might be considered irrupters.
If memory serves me correctly (and often it doesn't), I believe 2001 was the last year I had evening grosbeaks at my feeders. But with early sightings in Catawba County and predictions of poor seed crops in northern boreal forests, the hordes may return. I would surely love to have evening grosbeaks at my feeders this winter, I just hope I can afford it — you would be amazed at how many black oil sunflower seeds a flock of these critters can go through.
You won't be able to miss these large yellow, black and white finches. Juvenile common redpolls are small brown-streaked finches that could be confused with pine siskins and/or female house finches but with their late summer molt they take on the red cap and dark chin of the adult so birds here, in the winter, should be easy to distinguish if you get a view of the head. Common redpolls are similar to hoary redpolls in all plumages. But as the name "hoary" suggests, the latter is paler all over and the streaking on its flanks and rump are minimal or absent. Hoarys rarely make it this far south even in irruption years.
If you think you have a redpoll at your feeder it's best to try and document it immediately. The birds are quite transient and that one stop at your feeder may be the only one.
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When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
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Chicago winter running
Same with me. Wanted to get off the 1000 mile team so others can be on the first page but there's no way I'll catch the rabbit. I wish I'd kept a log of what I ran in April and May b/c perhaps I'd be there but alas, those runs went unrecorded. 1st trail marathon coming up on Dec. 1st- I won't PR but I hope it will be fun!
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... My first ultra is this weekend at Ultracentric.
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
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Have fun in your first trail marathon, Katie. My first ultra is this weekend at Ultracentric. Hopefully, I pass 1,000 miles not long after the starting line.


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Monday, September 6, 2010
German Chocolate Cake
I first read about this cake on this blog, which is sadly now absent from the blogasphere. Since then I seem to see it everywhere. I've used my favorite chocolate cake recipe, for this and topped it with a bitter ganache, which helped balanced the intense sweetness. This is an ugly cake, with an intense flavor, you will remember it long after you've licked the last drop of ooze from the plate
Chocolate Cake
You may be tempted, as I was, to cut down the sugar in this recipe-Don't. Once you add the buttermilk and coffee, this becomes a not very sweet cake.
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups good cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare your cake pans.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl and mix until combined.
In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.
Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup white sugar
3 egg yolk, beaten with 1 teaspoon water
1/2 cup margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup flaked coconut
In a large saucepan combine evaporated milk, sugar, egg yolks, margarine and vanilla. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thick. Remove from heat and stir in pecans and coconut. Spread on cake while still warm.
250g dark cooking chocolate, chopped
1/3 cup cream
Combine chocolate and cream in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir with a metal spoon until smooth. Remove bowl from heat.
Set aside at room temperature to cool, stirring occasionally, until ganache is thick and spreadable.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
1 cup rice
½ cup moong dal
1 Tbsp cooking oil
Mustard seeds
Powder together: 4-6 cardamoms, 6-8 cloves, 2-3 pieces of cinnamon, 1 tsp cumin seeds
Roast the moong dal to a light brown; wash it along with the rice. Mix salt and the powdered spices with this and let it stay for awhile. Heat the oil; add mustard seeds. When they stop spluttering, add turmeric. Pour in the rice-dal mixture, roast it for a minute or two, then add sufficient water. Let it cook slowly on a low heat. Fluff with a fork, and serve.
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Marilyn Monroe slept here
By Ann O'Neill, CNN • Updated 30th November 2011
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Back in the days when celebrity was worn with the elegance and grace of diamonds and mink, the Beverly Hills Hotel was where the stars played. W.C. Fields, Humphrey Bogart and the Rat Pack tippled at the bar, Katharine Hepburn did a back flip into the pool in her tennis clothes, and Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned in the bungalows out back -- six times.
The Beverly Hills Hotel, known affectionately as "the pink palace," is as Old Hollywood as it gets. Joan Crawford regularly pulled up for lunch in a chauffeured Rolls Royce the color of money, the Beatles slipped in through the back door for an after-hours dip in the pool, and Sidney Poitier danced barefoot in the lobby after winning an Oscar for "Lilies of the Field."
Svend Petersen, who ran the pool for 42 years and still serves as the hotel's official ambassador, knew them all: Cary Grant, Lucille Ball, the Kennedys, Esther Williams, Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Carol Burnett, Ingrid Bergman, Princess Grace, Marilyn Monroe.
"So many fabulous people have been here. We had them at the pool every day," said Petersen, 81, known as the Poolside Prince. "I taught Phyllis Diller how to swim, and it wasn't easy. She'd only kick with one foot."
He also used the pool to teach Faye Dunaway a 1940s-style crawl for her role in "Mommie Dearest" and led Taylor to a secluded upper cabana so she could avoid whispers during her zaftig years.
"She gave me a big hug," he recalled. "I'm still feeling that hug."
If the 1960s and '70s were a golden age in Hollywood, as Petersen believes, the Beverly Hills Hotel was at the center of it all. During Academy Awards season, poolside cabanas had to be reserved a year in advance. George Hamilton nurtured his famous tan by the pool, and Rex Harrison, of "My Fair Lady" fame, sunbathed in the nude in Cabana One. He'd answer the door wearing "just a handkerchief over his private parts," Petersen said, and it was always of a different color.
The signature green stripes and red carpet sweep guests into the grand entrance of the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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And then there was Fred Astaire, who enjoyed reading Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter by the pool.
"I loved Fred Astaire. He didn't just walk," Petersen said. "Fred Astaire danced when he walked."
They don't make movie stars like they used to, Petersen laments. "You can't compare the stars of today to Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The glamour is gone now."
The hotel, which turns 100 next year, grew up with the film, television and music industries -- and with Beverly Hills itself, opening in 1912, two years before the city incorporated. It even indulged twice in that Beverly Hills standby, the facelift, first in the 1940s and again in the early 1990s.
Historian Marc Wanamaker says it all began with an oil bust. By 1903, speculators had given up on finding even a drop of oil within what would become the Beverly Hills city limits. They did find water, however, and decided to develop the bean fields as housing.
But by 1911, developers were still having trouble selling the lots. That's when they came up with the idea to market Beverly Hills as a resort. At the center would be a grand hotel. It would feature bungalows for guests with families. The Beverly Hills Hotel was built in a year, opening in 1912.
Within a decade, the first Hollywood stars -- led by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford -- began to settle in Beverly Hills. Gloria Swanson stayed in the hotel bungalows during a divorce before moving into a mansion across the street.
Over the years, Hollywood learned that the hotel's original 21 bungalows made an ideal spot to write a screenplay (Neil Simon), have a secret affair (Warren Beatty, pre-Annette Benning), and recover from plastic surgery or a broken marriage (You know who you are).
Tucked away amid 12 acres of lush gardens of bougainvillea, banana plants, hibiscus and other exotic tropical flora, the bungalows are bigger than many people's houses and come with 24-hour room service and dog walking. Howard Hughes kept as many as six bungalows at a time from 1942 into the 1970s and had roast beef sandwiches delivered to a nook in a tree. A buck-naked Orson Welles, so the story goes, flashed a visitor when he opened the door to his suite in the building dubbed "Bachelor's Row."
Political rascals and Wall Street's masters of the universe also contributed colorful footnotes to history.
President Richard M. Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, and domestic affairs counselor John Enrlichman were having breakfast in the hotel's famed Polo Lounge when they learned about the Watergate burglary in 1972. Hotel phone records were key to the obstruction of justice case that toppled Nixon's presidency and sent many of his aides to prison.
More than a decade later, Ivan Boesky, a prominent figure in the Wall Street insider trading scandal, turned government informant and wore an FBI wire during a meeting at the hotel with junk bond king Michael Milken. Boesky briefly owned the hotel before his financial house of cards collapsed. He sold to tycoon Marvin Davis, who in turn sold the hotel to the Sultan of Brunei. The hotel is now included in Dorchester Collection, a group of high-end hotels in London, Paris, Milan and Geneva run by Dorchester Group LTD, a subsidiary of Brunei Investment Agency.
But no other hotel, no matter how posh, has been so entwined with the entertainment industry, historian Wanamaker says.
Lushly landscaped gardens and pathways lead to the bungalows.
Courtesy Beverly Hills Hotel
"The Beverly Hills Hotel traditionally has been a home to the stars," he explained. "They either live there, or they eat there, or they do their business there, or they do their publicity there."
And, while the main hotel may be where "the peasants" stay, the bungalows belong to the players. Here's the inside scoop:
Bungalow 1
: Secluded and large, it's the primo bungalow. Marilyn Monroe spent more time in this bungalow than in any other, and it was a favorite of former hotel owner Marvin Davis, his grandson, Jason, tells us.
Bungalow 2
: Industrialist Norton Simon and actress Jennifer Jones got to know each other here before getting married and moving to Bungalow 9.
Bungalow 3
: Elizabeth Taylor spent time here during her marriage to Eddie Fisher, and Robert F. Kennedy's kids were staying here when he was assassinated. David Frost was here when comedian Henry Gibson delivered his shirts while researching a role. Frost did not recognize him even though Gibson had been on his show.
Bungalow 4
: Howard Hughes' fave. He left a Cadillac parked on the street below for more than two years but never used it. The ticket-happy Beverly Hills cops ignored the car, even after the tires went flat and weeds sprouted from it.
Bungalow 5
: Liz Taylor and Richard Burton had a standing room service order for two bottles of vodka at breakfast, and two more at lunch. Not surprisingly, they'd get in huge fights during which plates and glasses would fly. Madonna and Mariah Carey also stayed at this bungalow, which features four bedrooms and a pool, put in at the request of publishing magnate Walter Annenberg. Clive Davis was partial to the piano.
Bungalow 6
: Liza Minnelli is said to have liked this bungalow best, although it has otherwise been remarkably free of drama.
Bungalow 7
: Another Marilyn Monroe favorite, it is known as the "Norma Jean."
Bungalow 8
: Unmentionables hung from the chandeliers during disgraced financier Michael Milken's Thursday night "no wives" party, the kickoff of his annual Predator's balls during the 1980s.
Bungalow 9
: Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi slept here.
Bungalow 10
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Bungalows 14-21
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Petersen has been asked many times to write a book about his experiences, but the deal always falls through at the last minute because he won't dish dirt. "I don't want no dirt book," he says.
A chilly, foggy October morning provided the backdrop for a pilgrimage to Bungalow 1, which is popular for its seclusion, working fireplace and generous proportions. The interior is creamy, lush and traditional, decorated in the manner of one's wealthy grandparents. The galley kitchen is rather small, but who comes to Beverly Hills to cook?
Certainly not Marilyn Monroe.
The Beverly Hills Hotel is not for someone on a budget. Rooms go for anywhere from $550 a night in the main hotel to upwards of $15,000 a night for one of the two new presidential bungalows, which opened earlier this year.
VIPs pay $13,610 to $15,380 a night for 5,500 square feet -- complete with a great room with a soaring ceiling, five limestone fireplaces and a personal pool with outdoor shower. Walls of windows and French doors seem to bring the gardens indoors. But alas, these bungalows were occupied and off limits. Asked who would hole up in such posh digs, hotel representative Jenna Duran was discreetly vague. Pressed, she offered a hypothetical: "Hollywood royalty."
The winding paths leading to the bungalows were hushed as a library. Even the birds seemed to observe a code of silence. Gardeners worked quietly, and indeed, there was nary a cigarette butt or patch of crabgrass to be found. The trees were free of stashes of roast beef sandwiches.
The Polo Lounge, here shown uncharacteristically empty, offers interior and outdoor power dining.
Courtesy Beverly Hills Hotel
For repast, there's the Polo Lounge in the main hotel building. It takes it name from polo-playing patrons of the 1940s, including Will Rogers, whose photo hangs over the bar.
Once upon a time, the Polo Lounge was
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Many of the ladies who lunched that day wore pants, thanks to Marlene Dietrich, who in the 1940s convinced the hotel to loosen up its dress code.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant scored 13 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter to help the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Memphis Grizzlies 100-86 on Saturday night in the opening game of their first-round series.
Russell Westbrook had 23 points and 10 rebounds and Serge Ibaka added 17 points and nine rebounds for the Thunder, who nearly squandered a 25-point lead but recovered from a dismal third quarter to make 10 of 16 shots in the fourth.
Zach Randolph led Memphis with 21 points and 11 rebounds, but he made just seven of 21 shots and got into foul trouble in the second half. Mike Conley had 16 points and 11 assists, Mark Gasol scored 16 points and Tony Allen added 13 points for the Grizzlies. The Thunder held Memphis to 36 percent shooting.
Oklahoma City was the only home team to win on the first day of the postseason.
Game 2 will be Monday night in Oklahoma City.
Memphis had whittled Oklahoma City's lead down to three early in the fourth before a powerful drive and jam by Caron Butler brought life back to the nervous arena and gave the Thunder a 74-69 lead with just under nine minutes to play. Memphis' Mike Miller came back with a 3-pointer to make it a two-point game, but the Thunder responded with a 13-1 run to regain control.
The Thunder pushed the pace to take an 8-0 lead, and Memphis called a timeout less than three minutes into the game. Conley finally scored Memphis' first point at the 9:04 mark after the Grizzlies missed their first five shots.
The Thunder led 29-16 at the end of the first period. Oklahoma City shot 52 percent in the first 12 minutes while holding the Grizzlies to 17 percent shooting. Randolph shot 2 of 11 in the opening period.
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The 'Caps opened their season with an exciting 2-1 come-from-behind win over Kitsap Pumas last Friday at Thunderbird Stadium.
After going down a goal after six minutes, the 'Caps stormed back late in the second half on goals from Cam Hundal and substitute Spencer DeBoice.
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Hi Everyone!
Here is a summary of our most recent Genealogy Program at the Schaumburg Township District Library on Tuesday evening, April 12, 2011. Our guest speaker for the evening was Robin B. Seidenberg. Robin presented a program titled "Mining for Gold: Online Digital Newspapers".
We had a great turnout for this early Spring program. Finally, there was no snow problem for our program evening!!! We had a great turnout of 73 participants!
This was the first time that Robin had presented a program at our library to our group. I can already say that this will not be the last time she makes a genealogy presentation at our library!!
I started the program at 7:30 PM with the introduction of new participants. We had about 7 new participants who shared with all of us their name, their description of the their newness to genealogy and some of the surnames they were researching. Each new participant received a Welcome package from me with some good tips on how to move forward on their research journey using a variety of resources both within and outside our library.
I indicated to the group that I would like to forego reviewing some of the handout material so that we could get to our speaker by 7:45 PM rather than 8:00 PM and allow more un-rushed time after the speaker should anyone want to talk to me or the speaker. Because the material is all available online everyone can take a deeper look at it on their own. I just briefly reviewed some upcoming program dates and topics for a variety of groups in the area.
You can easily find all of our monthly library genealogy "Newsletters" in this blog along the right sidebar. You can also find all of our monthly library genealogy "Handouts" in this blog along the right sidebar. Take some time to look at the current issues as well as the past ones. These are PDF files so you can look at them from the within the blog or download them to your own computer. All are filled with electronic bookmarks, hyperlinks, internet URL links for you to quickly find material and to link to topics of interest on the internet. That is the beauty of these electronic files!
Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have on the material contained in the Newsletter or the Handout material.
Robin then started her presentation at around 7:45 PM.
Robin did ask that any questions that may come up during the presentation be held until the end of the program.
Robin shared with us a story of an ancestor of hers that was involved in a murder. To say the least that was an attention grabber just as Robin also explained that newspapers are first and foremost in the business of selling newspapers. And how do they sell newspapers? With attention grabbing choice of words as headline items and column titles of course!!
Robin spent a good amount of time sharing with the audience all of the tools and techniques she used to dig deeper and deeper into this fascinating story about her ancestor. She showed us search techniques she used to discover newspaper article stories about this ancestor not just from local papers but from papers around the country and world that carried the story.
And why is it good to dig deeper among a variety of newspapers and not just end with a story published by one local newspaper? Because each story may contain just that one additional nugget of information that wasn't seen in any other story you may have discovered about your ancestor that you can now use for further research.
Robin also showed many examples of pictures that are included in these newspaper stories. Imagine discovering a picture of an ancestor through a newspaper story when you have not discovered any other picture of that ancestor anywhere else. The pictures do not have to originate from a murder story or any other type of "major" story! Any story could potentially have a picture e.g. a Boy Scout troop pictures that includes your ancestor, a wedding announcement, an obituary.
Robin also made a great point on uncovering more material. If you are having some good luck in discovering online digital newspaper material from a variety of sources then you should consider this bit of information especially for large metropolitan areas as Chicago, New York etc. Perhaps these cities had multiple newspapers. Perhaps you have found an online newspaper from the city. Consider this. The other newspapers of that city may not be online but they may very well be available as microfilms. You know the date of material from the online newspaper. Consider getting microfilms of the other newspapers in the same city and look around the same date in these films for stories that could also have been printed about your ancestor. You may discover new material in these stories that were never online in digital format and were only available via microfilm!
Our library makes available for library cardholders of Schaumburg Township District Library a variety of online accessible newspapers. You access these by entering n your library card number. For those of you that did not have your library card issued to you by us, then simply check with your home library for access to the same digital online newspaper material. Most of the databases are common among all public libraries. You will see such material as:
- NewsBank
- ProQuest
- Newspaper Archives
- America's Obituaries
- FootNote.com
It is within these databases you will find newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune or the New York Times. Access these through your local public library.
Robin also mentioned some other online resources to consider to access:
- Illinois Historical Newspapers Online
- Illinois Newspaper Project
- Free Newspaper Archives in the U.S.
- Cyndis List – Newspapers
Digital online newspapers. What a great source. Take advantage of what our library has available to further your own research. Take a look at other online digital newspaper that you can find on the Internet. Some are subscribable. Some are free.
Also remember that the scanning process involved in converting newsprint to digital images is not perfect. You may find what appears to be many good leads on surnames you may enter only to discover that the "find" is not accurate. As an example, I often search the surname "KIERNA" in online material. I receive what may be great hits on new information only to discover that the print of the material actually shows the surname "KIERNAN". The scanning process was unable to pick up the last "N" and so the data was entered into the index as "KIERNA".
So I actually did really find information on the surname "KIERNA" in this case as well as incorrect indexing of scanned material. These are not that isolated. You will find plenty of wrong hits. Just be patient and keep looking through the material. But just be aware the scanning process is not always 100% accurate.
Using the indexed online material sure beats just browsing through old paper editions or microfilm, hoping you might just come across something. Sort of like playing the Lotto!! At least you get some idea from digital searching that some good material may just be around the corner at your fingertips.
Robin ended her presentation at around 9:00 PM and took a variety of questions and stayed around until about 9:30 PM.
I am so glad we had Robin give us this presentation. I look forward to working with her on inviting her back to give us another great presentation on another aspect of genealogy research.
Thank you Robin for your great presentation!
We all left a lot wiser on digital newspaper research than when we arrived.
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library


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well, look at my face don't you think that "butter wouldn't melt in my mouth?" j/kOriginally Posted by tdol
I certainly do.
This is the first time I hear this idiom. I can't actually associate being innocent to butter not melting in one's mouth.
I thought if a person is not greedy, even if you put butter in his mouth (yuck)
it wouldn't melt.
Another thought, he is such a cold (unfriendly) person, even if you put butter in his mouth it wouldn't melt.
And I was all wrong...
It is believed that this saying originated because butter melts in a warm environment. A person who is guilty but playing innocent is considered cool or even cold and calculating. So cold that butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.Originally Posted by light
hmm.. so this person is not really innocent but pretending to be innocent
Never heard about it , but I managed to guess the right meaning
ohh my guessis wrong better luck nexttime


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Kieran Hebden developed Four Tet's sample-based collage of jazz, folk and soul textures in downtime between recording with Fridge, the band he started with school friends Adem Ilhan and Sam Jeffers. After Dialogue was released by Output, Kieran went on to produce Pause, Rounds and Everything Ecstatic for Domino.
The collaboration came about through a mutual friend, Antoine at Paris Jazz Corner. Kieran was keen to revisit the kind of intense dialogues to be found in 70s free jazz duos; Steve liked Four Tet and wanted to engage with modern electronic textures, something he felt had not yet been done well in jazz. The result was a show in Paris, one in London, and then straight after, The Exchange Sessions.
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Photographer James Balog has a story for you, and it might be one you haven't heard before. Starting in 2005, he and a team of adventurous photographers set out to provide visual, undeniable evidence for climate change. What they found he described as "decrepit old men falling into the earth and dying:" glaciers worldwide disappearing at record rates.
The film Chasing Ice is the story of their Extreme Ice Survey as they place time-lapse cameras on glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Montana, and Alaska, and watch as they disappear. The public does not want statistics, they say. The public is being misled to believe that scientists do not agree on climate change. The public is losing interest but needs to pay attention.
As Balog and his team will tell you, the memory cards in their cameras contain the memories of the landscape, a "limitless universe of forms," that will never be seen again. Man-made climate change (as documented by ice cores from the very glaciers that may not exist in a few years) is fundamentally altering our geology.
The film is, in many respects, simply beautiful. Balog, a renowned nature photographer, describes near the beginning his love affair with ice. His shots throughout Chasing Ice remind the viewer that there is a lot to love. It is also an adventure story: sled dogs, harsh temperatures, and manta rays for dinner remind us that it takes serious commitment to do what the Extreme Ice Survey has done.
Chasing Ice is a sobering reminder of everything we are losing. Images of glaciers larger than Manhattan spinning off into the ocean, time-lapse photography showing natural beauty lost forever, and endless rivers of melting ice show us how much damage we have already done. The film reminds us that this is not only about glacier melt; this is the visible proof of choice. And we are reminded of that at every turn:
Wildfires increasing in frequency and intensity;
Sea level rise that will displace more than 150 million people;
Hurricanes and typhoons that will grow more deadly each year as there is more water to shove around;
And, of course, the fact that as we melt more and more glaciers, the process will only speed up.
"Really big stuff is happening right under our noses right now," says Balog. As a photographer, he says, he loves the visual beauty of his project. As a human being, however, he knows that it signals the growing crisis we face, and the opportunity we have to face it.
As Balog reflects on the impact climate change might have on future generations, his hope is to be able to say "I was doing everything I knew how to do." As he does, the incredible gift of Chasing Ice reminds us of everything we stand to lose.
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Janelle Tupper is campaigns assistant for Sojourners.
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U.S. marshal's weapons stolen from car in Saukville
Suspect's mother says heroin addiction to blame
A couple is accused of stealing a gun, a Taser and more out of a U.S. marshal's vehicle in Saukville.
WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater spoke with one of the suspect's parents who is in shock.
The U.S. marshal reported the theft of his weapons to the Saukville police.
The mother of a 22-year-old woman accused in the case said it's heartbreaking because a heroin addiction has led to a series of bad decisions that could land her daughter in prison.
"She just called me last week saying her life was a mess and she wanted to stop this insanity and get help," parent Amy Smith said.
Smith said she had no idea when her daughter, Ann Radke and boyfriend, Cliff Fiene, returned to her Saukville home last week that they allegedly brought a stolen U.S. marshal's rifle with a silencer with them -- stolen federal property taken from the marshal's car in Saukville.
"My daughter's been struggling with addiction to heroin for a lot longer than I even knew," Smith said. "And it's because of the addiction that she got into all the mess that she did."
Smith's daughter and boyfriend are also accused in a series of thefts of electronic equipment from cars in the Fredonia and Grafton area, including an external hard drive taken from one of the Paque family cars. Larry Paque just found out about the stolen marshal's gun.
"The initial reaction is, 'Oh, this guy's gotten himself into some real trouble now. But it also makes me think, we're lucky that they stopped where they did. That all they did was go into the unlocked car," Paque said.
Smith said she's frustrated because she can't afford to pay for drug treatment for her daughter:
"I wish I could find help for her before she sits in jail or prison because that's just not what they need. They need help,' Smith said.
According to court documents the couple was hoping to sell the weapons for money. Police found them stashed in a wooded area in Grafton.
Fience faces the most serious of felony charges.


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I have some words of advice for women who use the bathroom at their child's preschool during menstruation. Don't put your tampon in the toilet. I actually broke my own rule this day. I usually never put a tampon in the toilet. Even if I was at Caldor. Or the mall. Or a campground. Because they are not good for the system, whether it be septic or sewer. I know, I was very thoughtful. Usually.
I was dropping The Kid off at her preschool when I realized I was having a problem down below. I found a bathroom in the hall and used it. The toilets were of the teeny tiny kind. The kind where when you sit, your knees hit your chin. And your ass cheeks hang over the side like a 1/4 Pounder shoved into a mini croissant. Unless you are 4, probably not a good idea to try. With or without your period.
I forgot my head, and suddenly realized I dropped the thing into the toilet. I flushed. It swirled around and around. Like the Merry-Go-Round at the mall. Needless to say, it didn't go down. Another flush. And another ride around the rim it did. I started to break out in a major sweat. And felt like I had to poo (when I get really nervous, I get the sensation. And I'm not talking about that kind you have from being on top of a cool mountain).
Now, there was a way to rectify the situation. Stick my hand in and pull the sucker out, wrap it in toilet paper and toss it into the can. Garbage can. I even could have just left it there. No one would have been the wiser. But the old Catholic guilt was eating away at me. Instead, I proceeded to the office of the school's Director and told her about my problem. There is nothing more embarrassing than having a woman who you do not know watch your bloody tampon do pirouettes in a toilet made for munchkins.
I got reprimanded. "Mrs. M., please do not use the children's bathrooms anymore. We have toilets for big girl's down the hall. And no tampons. Please." I was expecting her to slap the back of my hand and send me to the corner. It was then that the thought of going fishing occurred to me.
Whenever I see the director around town, I literally run in the opposite direction. Or hide until she goes away. Not that she would remember that I was the tampon lady. But just in case. So, if you see me cowering at the local craft store between the acrylic and latex paints, you'll know why.


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Once Cataclysm came along, I was forced to put my shaman on the back burner for a while. Raid needed tank. Me tank. Me tank hard. (Okay, so I neither write or speak like that.) I also got to enjoying messing around with the various warrior DPS specs. But with the passing of time, as my warriors got geared enough to perform the roles expected of them, I got to missing my shaman.
My orc, I may never level again (at least not until I finally break down and buy a race change to tauren -- you can thank Garrosh "Where did my neck go?" Hellscream), but my draenei, I still enjoy a great deal. I know a lot of Alliance shaman players went dwarf, but I'm fond of my big blue. So I went back and started leveling him and quickly discovered a few things.
- I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. A lot of the essentials of the class are still there, but a lot really has changed. Fire Nova works entirely differently now. Stat weights are entirely different. We have whole new abilities, and our older abilities were either redesigned, moved around, or in some cases removed entirely.
- Sentry Totem is gone. I won't lie: I cried.
- We have two forms of CC now! Two! Holy crap, I remember when Hex was barely even viable. Now, it's pretty solid.
- Mages have stolen Heroism. This also made me cry.


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Rapunzel's Revenge is written by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale (her husband) and illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation). Shannon Hale has written five fictional novels for teens (and won a few awards for them) but this is her first work in a comic format.
Nathan Hale has written and illustrated two other works; The Devil You Know and Yellowbelly and Plum Go To School and provided illustrations for Balloon On the Moon.
Published in North American in 2008 by Bloomsbury, Rapunzel's Revenge is recommended for audiences between 10-14.
Rapunzel's Revenge is a fun western and fairytale/fantasy genre mash up. The story's magic is of a shamanistic-harnessing-of-life-energy variety and is utilized by a very few characters and so contributes more of a narrative enabling framework. The most of events of the story and the actions of the protagonists are grounded in the physical, more realistic and pragmatic, western adventure context. The writers have a lot of fun with the potential of both genres' conventions without relying too much on either to provide easy plot device resolutions. The story has really excellent pacing and despite the staying conscientiously age-appropriate the two principles have engaging and nuanced personalities (to the extent that character development is desirable in an energetic adventure).
The art is much better then might be expected considering the genre and intended audience. Comics for younger audiences often have over or under designed pages, utilize excessive palettes and are too visually conflicted. Comics have great potential to be vivacious and dynamic but it shouldn't be assumed that children or young adults can't respond well to, or deserve, art that is attractive, nuanced and well-balanced. Nathen Hale is not a comic artist that takes a patronizing approach to drawing for young adults. His page designs are creative but utilitarian and the use of color is thoughtful and vivid – even at its most fantasist it never tips into giddy over-saturation.
Early in the book there is a nice set of pages [16,17] that have very little text and rely on the art to convey the emotional weight of the story. Rapunzel sees her real mother for the first time since her early childhood. Hale uses very effective panel-within-panel illustrations to match imagery of unfolding, present, events with some very beautiful but simple illustrations of remembered events. The two-panel sets contain both a color and sepia panel and then Hale follows those images with another page with long, narrow alternating color and sepia panels. This succeeds in conveying a complex, very emotional event, visually and the way Hale has handled the scene makes immediate intellectual and emotional sense. It's the comic medium working at its most effective and it's great to see this kind of talent and thought going into a comic for younger readers.
I think the age range recommended by the publisher is a bit limiting. While the content and reading level is probably fine for most readers between 10 and 14 this story is the sort of adventure that has the potential to appeal to older readers.
Hale, Shannon (w), Dean Hale (w), and Nathan Hale(i). Rapunzel's Revenge (2008), Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books. ISBN-10:159990070X


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Clarke Papers. Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, ed. C.H. Firth (Camden Society, 1901). 4 vols. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1983,
The Clarke Papers chronicle the debates which took place in the Army during the English Civil War over the relationship between Parliament and the Army.
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A Miami Heat championship mural received an unwanted update hours after LeBron announced his return to Cleveland.
The mural, located on Northeast 29th Street between Miami Avenue and 1st Avenue, was defaced by someone who sprayed paint all over LeBron's face.
According to Local 10, the mural took over two years to complete.
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Dallas-area pizzaiolo Jay Jerrier, co-owner of Dallas's Campania, gets some press for his mobile-pizza-oven operation, Il Cane Rosso on the Dallas Observer's food blog, City of Ate.
You may already know Jerrier as canerosso here on Slice, so you won't be surprised that he's pretty damn opinionated about his preferred style of pizza—Neapolitan. [After the jump, where to find Il Cane Rosso.]
"We went to Italy for our honeymoon. ...I had grown up in the Northeast, and you know, they have that New York pizza...which everybody goes crazy over. ...It's good, but it's not great. So, everyone said, 'You're gonna hate the pizza in Italy.' We went over there, and Pizzeria Aurora in Sorrento was the very first place I had real Italian pizza, and I was like 'Oh my God! This is the best thing I've ever eaten!'"
I also like this: "If I had any balls, I'd stop using pepperoni and use spicy sopressata instead. But I'm gettin' there."
Where to Find Il Cane Rosso
Il Cane Rosso appears mostly at private events, but Jerrier does pizza nights at Times Ten Cellars in Dallas (6324 Prospect Avenue, Dallas TX 75214; map). Those appearances will resume at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 7 and continue every Wednesday night from 6 p.m. until ICR runs out of dough (usually about 150 pizzas, Jerrier tells us). ICR's Pizza Nights are open to the public, no reservations required, but we hear it fills up fast. Jerrier is working out a Pizza Night schedule with the new Times Ten Cellars store in Fort Worth.
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The NEW ERA of RAILROADING (Nov, 1936)
The NEW ERA of RAILROADING
IT took ninety years to start the revolution that set the streamline train on its time-shattering career. You knew that revolution had come when you read that the fiery old iron horse had been stabled and in its place, trailing a string of coaches straight and smooth as an arrow's shaft, was no grimy black engine but a strange new power car of "cobalt and sarasota blue, golden olive and pimpernel scarlet." Like an arrow the streamliner shot across the country, caught the public imagination, beckoned a new generation that thought the railways outmoded and slow to come for a thrilling hundred-mile-an-hour ride in this aluminum bullet.
A new era in railroading was beginning, yet its seeds were buried ninety years ago. For the streamline train was first prophetically suggested in a British patent granted in 1846 to Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor of the Bessemer steel process. He proposed a "wedge form" for the piston carriage of "atmospheric railways," to " diminish atmospheric resistance and allow the carriage to move at higher velocities with less power. The wedge form may be used both in the fore and hind parts of carriages or of trains, in addition to the closing of the intermediate spaces." In 1865, as the American Civil War closed, U. S. patent No. 49,227 was issued to S. R. Calthrop for a train designed to diminish wind resistance, but the train was never developed. At the turn of the century the "Windsplitter," America's first streamline train, was given trial on the Baltimore & Ohio tracks in Maryland. It was designed by F. U. Adams of Chicago, a newspaper man. It never was placed in scheduled service, and the streamline idea slumbered on.
The epoch of the streamliner was born, at last, of necessity. In 1920 the railroads carried a peak-year load of 1,235,- 000,000 passengers. In 1933 only 433,-000,000 passengers chose the rails for their thoroughfare. Passenger-miles dwindled from forty-seven billion in 1920 to a little more than sixteen billion in 1933. What drastic, dramatic gesture could lure back the lost passengers to the railways?
The streamliner was the answer. Dramatic "packaging" for the traveler. Mighty power plants wrapped in color — "sarasota blue and pimpernel scarlet," for one—that would draw thousands every day to watch them roar by, and would pile up a waiting list of passengers.
The railroads borrowed style from giant air transports and from streamline automobiles. But speed called for more than mere styling, and the railroads went to the automotive manufacturers for an engine that would haul million-pound trains—built at a cost of -a dollar a pound—across the continent day after day at eighty and ninety mile speeds without breakdown. Speed was nothing new to the old iron horse, for a record of 127.1 miles per hour marked up by the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited in 1905 has yet to be challenged by today's fast trains. Even today the Chicago and North Western's conventional steam "400" matches the better than mile-a-minute pace of the streamline steam "Hiawatha" and the Diesel-electric "Zephyr" between Chicago and St. Paul. But sustained speed, a thousand miles nightly from Chicago to Denver, two-thousand-mile sprints from Lake Michigan to the Pacific, called for an engine with long-distance stamina, and the Diesel was given the assignment.
Climb into the massive yellow power car of the "City of San Francisco," one of the newest and most powerful of the growing fleet, and watch the engineer start his eleven-car streamliner on its journey of two nights and a day to the bay city from Chicago. Half-way across Nebraska this speedster will overtake the steam train that left Chicago eight hours in advance.
The Diesel-electric engineer is half automobilist, half electric motorman. His "fireman"—an obsolete term—climbs down into the grey power room that resembles the engine room of a great ship, starts the Diesels as you would start an automobile engine, and rejoins the engineer in the cab. Three auxiliary motors have already been running, furnishing power for lights, air-conditioner, brake lines. Given the "highball," the engineer releases his brakes, sets the motor in "series" and advances the controller to "Speed 2." The mighty locomotive starts forward almost imperceptibly— a jolt is all but impossible with articulated, shockproof coupling—the controller is advanced again and the purr of the Diesels becomes a roar as the electric drive draws more and more power. When the train reaches a speed of thirty miles an hour the controller is thrown back, as if to shift gears; the motor is switched from "series" to "parallel" and again the controller moves forward. There are eight speeds oh the controller. At sixty miles an hour the engineer switches beyond " parallel" into the high cruising range, and the streamliner hits its stride.
Like an automobile, the Diesel is watercooled and the crew must keep its temperature around 160 degrees. Dials in the cab show the engine temperature, train speed, and air-brake pressure. There are warning lights to indicate overheated motor and low lubricating oil. Instead of semaphore signals, the automatic train control flashes a light in front of the engineer if the track ahead is obstructed, and if he fails to reduce speed in acknowledgment of the warning, the train is automatically brought to a stop. Temperature of the motors can be controlled by shutters at the front of the locomotive, regulated from the cab.
At the end of the 2,260-mile run they park the big streamliner over a greasing pit and give it about the same care you give your automobile after a week-end trip. They vacuum and scrub the cars in-side and out, man the grease guns and fill the oil and water tanks. The Diesel itself they leave pretty much alone. It's good for a few hundred thousand miles with scarcely a look. And that is why the Diesel-electric is stealing the show from the steam locomotive, which can travel just as fast. It takes no less than four steam engines—a change every 500 miles—to pull a passenger train from Chicago to the coast, with many another stop for coal, or fuel oil, or water. Half-hour stops for servicing are common. The Diesel spurns relief, stops no longer than ten minutes to refuel, keeps ordinary stops within a minute's span. The "City of Denver" pauses just forty-five seconds at Boone, Ia., for change of crew. It is this saving in operating delays, and its endurance at high speed, that enables the Diesel to clip twenty-two hours from the transcontinental time of the steam trains.
Too, the Diesel economizes in fuel and water, as well as in maintenance cost. It burns a relatively inexpensive fuel oil. It needs no boiler water, thus eliminating a cost item for such railroads as the Santa Fe, which must haul water in tank cars as far as 100 miles in dry regions of the southwest.
But the Diesel-electric locomotive still costs approximately two and one-half times as much as a steam engine, and its life span is unknown. No steam locomotive has been put to the test these Diesels are meeting. A decade may prove the old iron horse supreme, after all. Meanwhile the glittering streamliner of the new era has brought speed and glamour—and passengers—back to the railroads.